Job overview

Senior Software Engineer
 

As we continue our expansion into Prague we are looking for Senior Software Engineers to join our vulnerability management team. We are looking for Engineers who have a mix of software engineering, systems administration and security research skills to play a key role in evolving our content automation frameworks. You will take initiative to identify and own solutions to problems, and you will partner with cross-functional teams owning requirements that take into account all parties’ needs. You will act as a resource by advising and mentoring junior engineers to continue to build the technical capabilities of our teams.

About the Team

Our Product and Engineering team works with our award-winning products to create a single experience to help customers assess risk, detect threats and automate their security programs at over 10,000 organizations. These teams use best-in-class technology, leading-edge research, and broad, strategic expertise to develop new products and features, and enhance existing features, in order to create value for customers across the world. 

As a member of the InsightVM Coverage team, you will help contribute to building the best vulnerability management solution in the industry. By keeping up-to-date with industry trends on security best practices, you will help bolster our policy compliance benchmark portfolio to give our customers a peace of mind that their environments are securely-configured and that their business is continually improving their security posture. Our goal is to deliver the most accurate, performant, and policy compliant benchmarks in a scalable and sustainable manner. 

About the Role

The Senior Software Engineer is a part of our Product and Engineering team who are at the forefront of keeping our customers safe from attacks and breaches. In this role you will be focussed on helping our customers seamlessly manage their security solutions as effectively and efficiently as possible, and ensuring our products are delivering a secure experience. You will have the opportunity to further broaden your skills surrounded by a team of incredibly smart and experienced Engineers, whilst getting the opportunity to mentor others.

The Senior engineer will be working in a team with responsibility for creating new and updating existing policies. This requires coding skills for creating and testing policy creation and updates. They will require system admin skills (if possible but we can skill up) so that they can test policies to ensure they work correctly and policies act as intended on a system. Having an interest in security means that they will have an appreciation for security baselines and best practices which will assist when implementing rules for policies as an example.

In this role, you will:

• Give our customers a peace of mind by expanding and adapting our ability to provide security expertise through InsightVM/Nexpose that aligns with the realities of a constantly-changing security landscape

• Be creative to evolve our content automation frameworks to ensure simple and scalable processes

• Developing and maintaining scalable and testable ETL pipelines with responsibilities in transforming and sanitizing data

• Exercise various quality assurance techniques to ensure policy compliance artifacts are accurate and intuitive

• Improving code quality of existing frameworks

• Build, maintain, and release our well architected services by writing correct and clean code consistently and following best practices and conventions. You will understand and make well-reasoned design decisions and tradeoffs in your areas of expertise

• Take an active role in the design and planning of upcoming features, our engineers are first class stakeholders in all parts of the development process 

• When required, partner with internal teams such as UX and Product Management who work deeply with our product to ensure we are understanding our customers needs

•  Continue to develop a deep understanding of our products in order to support our customers

• Work with Practice specific technologies 

The skills you’ll bring include:

• A minimum of 5 years experience in software development using, Python, Java, Ruby, or similar programming language

• Proficiency with basic Linux or Windows systems administration (bash, PowerShell, or similar)

• Understanding of agile software development methodologies 

• Bonuses: Familiarity with Secure Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) standards, Cloud Platforms (ie. AWS),  service protocols, Generative AI and LLM models

• Excited by technology, curious and eager to learn, with the ability to mentor more junior members of the team 

• The attitude and ability to thrive in a high-growth, evolving environment

• Collaborative team player who has the ability to partner with others and drive toward solutions

• Strong creative problem solving skills

• Solid communicator with excellent written and verbal communications skills both within the team and cross functionally

• Passionate about delighting customers, puts the customer needs at the forefront of all decision making 

• Excellent attention to detail

• Demonstrable experience of delivering complex solutions to customers

We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That’s because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don’t be shy - apply today.

About Rapid7

Rapid7 is creating a more secure digital future for all by helping organizations strengthen their security programs in the face of accelerating digital transformation. Our portfolio of best-in-class solutions empowers security professionals to manage risk and eliminate threats across the entire threat landscape from apps to the cloud to traditional infrastructure to the dark web. We foster open source communities and cutting-edge research–using these insights to optimize our products and arm the global security community with the latest in attacker methods. Trusted by more than 10,000 customers worldwide, our industry-leading solutions and services help businesses stay ahead of attackers, ahead of the competition, and future-ready for what’s next.

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